N scale night operation

N scale locomotive on turntable

Night time operations on my N scale freelance layout. My layout has been completely wired with working street lights and buildings. It features custom installed lighting functions on some of my DCC locomotives, a working turntable, operational cross bucks at all grade crossings, flashing lighthouse Beacon, a campfire, an arc welder performing repairs at the […]

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Bay-window O gauge caboose from Atlas O Trainman line

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Bay-window O gauge caboose from Atlas O Trainman line Price: $76.95. Features: Factory-applied smokestack, brake wheel, brake lines, and see-through running board; die-cast metal couplers; roller-bearing caboose trucks with rotating bearing caps; weighted, detailed underframe; and interior lighting with on/off switch on underbody. New paint schemes: Chessie System (Chesapeake & Ohio reporting marks), Norfolk Southern […]

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Senators request Amtrak eliminate arbitration requirement for ticket purchases

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WASHINGTON — A group of 13 U.S. Senators, all Democrats, have written Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson requesting that the passenger railroad do away with its recent move requiring passengers to accept arbitration rather than being able to sue — a request Anderson quickly turned down. In January, Amtrak changed the contract language accompanying its tickets […]

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New model railroad products for the week of December 5, 2019

Bowser Trains HO scale GE U25B diesel locomotive

Bowser Trains HO scale GE U25B diesel locomotive HO scale locomotives General Electric U25B diesel locomotive. Burlington Northern (Great Northern Big Sky Blue patchout, Phases IIb and IV in one number each); Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (blue-and-yellow warbonnet, Phase IIa in three numbers); Chesapeake & Ohio (solid blue merger renumbering, Phase IIa); Chicago, Burlington […]

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‘Holiday Train’ delivers food, lights, and entertainment to crowds in the US and Canada

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Alan Doyle and Beautiful Band perform for the crowd gathered to see them and the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train at Mechanicville, N.Y., on Nov. 26. Dan Kittay The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train rests at Mechanicville, N.Y., during a recent stop. Two trains, similarly decorated with lights and decorations, travel the Canadian Pacific network each November […]

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UP sues to end employment provision in Texas town

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PALESTINE, Texas — Union Pacific has filed suit to overturn a contract dating to 1872 that guarantees a certain number of jobs in Palestine, an east Texas community of 18,136 located 110 miles southwest of Dallas. The Palestine Herald-Press reports the suit, filed on Nov. 27, contends the contract should have been invalidated by a […]

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